Re: [PATCH v4 10/12] string: factorize skip_spaces and export it tobe generally available

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Sunday 2009-11-08 17:38, James Bottomley wrote:

>On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 14:23 -0200, Andrà Goddard Rosa wrote:
>> + * skip_spaces - Removes leading whitespace from @s.
>> + * @s: The string to be stripped.
>> + *
>> + * Returns a pointer to the first non-whitespace character in @s.
>> + */
>> +char *skip_spaces(const char *str)
>
>OK, so this now becomes a bad interface because it silently promotes
>const to non const ...

strchr, etc. all do the same. Do you think they are bad too?
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